"I read Amour was co-produced by Austria and Germany. The last time Austria and Germany co-produced something, it was Hitler."

So last night he took to Twitter to, uh, take on another Austrian target: "Lotta flap over that Adolf joke. Look, Amour was a great film, so how about this: Austria, we'll give you the Oscar if you take back Arnold" (Arnold Schwarzenegger, of course).

The face-saving attempt seemed to fall flat among his Twitter followers:

"There'd be less flap if jokes were funnier (That includes this one)" — @kpsmartypants

"It's the #Oscars Seth. You need to be Bob Hope not Bob Saget." — @kade6767